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It's a Jetsons World: Private Miracles and Public Crimes (LvMI) Kindle Edition

by Jeffrey A. Tucker (Author) Format: Kindle Edition

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We are surrounded by miracles created in the private sector, particularly in the digital universe, and yet we don't appreciate them enough. Meanwhile, the public sector is systematically wrecking the physical world in sneaky and petty ways that really do matter.

Jeffrey Tucker, in It's a Jetsons World, draws detailed attention to both. He points out that the products of digital capitalism are astounding — more outrageously advanced than anything the makers of the Jetsons could even imagine.

Indeed the pace of change is mind-boggling. The world is being reinvented in our lifetimes, every day. Email has only been mainstream for 15 years or so, and young people now regard it as a dated form of communication used only for the most formal of correspondence. And no one uses the telephone unless a call has already been scheduled in advance.

Oddly, hardly anyone seems to care, and even fewer care about the institutional force that makes all this progress possible — the market economy. Instead, we just adjust to the new reality. We even hear of the grave problem of "miracle fatigue" — too much great stuff, too often. Truly, this new world seems to have arrived without much fanfare at all.

And why? We absorb amazing things and don't think much about their source or the system that produces them. We don't appreciate the market.

The Jetsons' world of rapid innovation is our world, but there is one major difference — and it isn't the flying car, which we might already have were it not for the government's promotion of roads and the central plan that manages transportation. It is this: we also live in the midst of a gigantic Leviathan state that seeks to control every aspect of our life down to the smallest detail. This is what keeps getting in our way.

With good, incisive economic sense and an indelible wit, this book will inspire love for free markets — and loathing of government.

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ASIN ‏ : ‎ B005AJP6IW
Publisher ‏ : ‎ Ludwig von Mises Institute (July 4, 2011)
Publication date ‏ : ‎ July 4, 2011
Language ‏ : ‎ English
File size ‏ : ‎ 706 KB
Simultaneous device usage ‏ : ‎ Unlimited
Text-to-Speech ‏ : ‎ Enabled
Screen Reader ‏ : ‎ Supported
Enhanced typesetting ‏ : ‎ Enabled
X-Ray ‏ : ‎ Not Enabled
Word Wise ‏ : ‎ Enabled
Sticky notes ‏ : ‎ On Kindle Scribe
Print length ‏ : ‎ 326 pages

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Jeffrey Tucker is founder and president of the Brownstone Institute. He is also Distinguish Senior Fellow of the Austrian Economics Center in Vienna, a research fellow of the RMIT Blockchain Study Group, a columnist at Forbes, Chief Liberty Officer and founder of Liberty.me, Distinguished Honorary Member of Mises Brazil, research fellow at the Acton Institute, policy adviser of the Heartland Institute, founder of the CryptoCurrency Conference, and author of 10 books in 5 languages.
He created the first commercial service of online book distribution that published entirely in the commons (The Laissez Faire Club) and he was an early innovator in online distribution of literature during his tenure as builder and editor of Mises.org from 1996 until 2011, and later directed editorial at fee.org and aier.org. He created the first live classroom in the liberty-oriented ideological space and assembled the official bibliography of famed economic writer Henry Hazlitt, a project that included more than 10,000 entries. Early in his career, following his degree in economics and journalism, he served as research assistant to Ron Paul at his private foundation.
Jeffrey Tucker gave the Franz Čuhel Memorial Lecture at the Prague Conference on Political Economy in 2017, has been a two-time featured guest on John Stossel’s show, interviewed on Glenn Beck’s television show, spoken at Google headquarters, appeared frequently on Huffington Post Live and Russia Today, been the two-time Master of Ceremonies at Libertopia, been featured at FreedomFest and the International Students for Liberty Conference, the featured speaker at Liberty Forum five years, keynoted the Young Americans for Liberty national convention, has spoken at many dozens of colleges and universities in the U.S. and around the world including Harvard University and Boston University, has been quoted in the New York Times and Washington Post, appears regularly in Newsweek and many other popular venues, and is in constant demand as a headline speaker at libertarian, technology, and monetary conferences around the world.
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jeff s bilotti

Another wonderful read

Reviewed in the United States on December 20, 2022

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Another wonderful read by Jeffrey Tucker. Here he takes a baby boomer classic cartoon the Jetsons. He is able to relate it to our modern world.

Reviewed in the United States on November 14, 2014

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The author is delightful to read. I suppose I should have given five stars but I felt the book a little uneven in that there were short articles on obvious topics with a few longer, less lighthearted pieces mixed in. This writer is my kind of libertarian. If you don't know his work, this and a slightly older book called Bourbon for Breakfast are both easily accessible and inexpensive to purchase for Kindle. If you like what you see, you can find other books and other information through this book. I recommend it!

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The Brainiac and the Beast by Blossom Stringfellow

Reviewed in the United States on April 9, 2014

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Although I'm not as well versed in the Austrian School of Economics as some of the intelligentsia who wrote reviews of Tucker's Jetson's World, I'd like to throw in my two cents. I found JT to be entertaining and insightful as always. He can reach Libertarians like myself who hunger for Liberty without having plowed through the tomes of the founding geniuses: Mises, Rothbard, et al.
I consider Tucker an astute and understandable interpreter of the brilliant works of the Austrian School of Economics founders. The Beast I referred to in the title of this review is, of course, government. Free and fair markets work to our benefit!!! We who grew up in one of the free-est nations on Earth have reaped the rewards of Yankee ingenuity, innovation, technology, and prosperity. When the Beast interferes, we see the dynamic actions of the market and individuals hampered, manipulated, and slowed down. The Beast seeks full control, not excellence or efficiency. Watch out, my dear fellow Americans, who cherish Liberty!

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Ruthless

Great reading.

Reviewed in the United States on February 1, 2022

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Truly enjoyed this well written thought provoking book. The author, Jeffrey A Tucker, has a light hearted way of leading you to come to your own conclusion.

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Tim

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Reviewed in the United States on September 30, 2012

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If you want to understand why libertarians think the way that they do, and in a fun and enjoyable way, then this is your book.

It could not be a more fun read. The "private miracles" written about in this book show just what a joy the private sector of our economy is. The "public crimes" contrast to show how badly things work when the government gets involved.

I could not recommend it more highly.

If you want to be introduced to the ideas of freedom, then you can do no better.

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Its a Banal Book

Reviewed in the United States on February 5, 2013

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Firstly, I am a huge fan of the Austrian School of Economics, I have read almost everything in print by Mises, much of Hayek and Rothbard. I loved Shaffer's Boundaries of Order: Private Property as a Social System where complexity theory and the ASE converge, a truly must read book. So when I read the paragraph from the first chapter I thought, wow, finally more on the coming technological revolution from the ASE side futher expanding the works of Peter Diamandis' Abundance: The Future Is Better Than You Think or Kevin Kelly's What Technology Wants or Matt Ridley's The Rational Optimist: How Prosperity Evolves (P.S.) .

Unfortunately the only thing about the coming revolution is the one paragraph in the introduction and its repetition on the back cover. I hate to say this but the title of the book defines the book itself perfectly. The Jetsons cartoon was infantile, pedantic, boring, puerile and insipid and sadly so is this work. Tuker's book is a stream of consciousness walk though libertarian issues that tries to copy Murray Rothbard's old essay style but fails miserably. Rothbard was far more intellectual, insightful and hard hitting, Tucker sad to say hits everything with a soft cushy pillow wrapped in marshmallow inanities. The entire work is like panning for gold, you have to sift through a ton of waste just to find very few widely scattered small nuggets.

The title and the work are perfect examples of false advertising. If you are below the 7th grade and have never read anything by a libertarian, then maybe this book is for you, but if you have read any of the greats, pass this book by! It's a waste of time and money.

At the same time I bought "Its a Jestons World," I bought Chris Andersons new books, Makers: The New Industrial Revolution and The Long Tail: Why the Future of Business is Selling Less of More , and I have to say they lived up to that author's reputation greatly. The other books I would highly recommend other than this book, if you are very interested in the Techno-Optimist revolution, are the books I mentioned above in the first paragraph. Tucker needs to go back to the word processor and spend more time coming up with something a bit more palatable then this watered down pabulum. I expect a lot more from an Austrian affectionado then this!

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Sephethus

Everyone should read this.

Reviewed in the United States on March 8, 2012

This is an important book and the best non-fiction book I have read this year so far.

Reading this book elicited a great appreciation for the things I have taken for granted. In addition, the author explains how we can make the world a better place by not using force to solve complex social problems.

He also validates my frustration with those who claim that "capitalism" is to blame for current social and economic problems when what they are actually referring to is not capitalism but corporate fascism.

He debunks the myth that intellectual property encourages innovation and protects inventors when in fact the exact opposite is true, citing historical example after example and this is just the tip of the iceberg.

This book is well researched, well written, well presented and available in audio for FREE via Freedomain Radio.

I highly recommend considering the arguments he puts forward, as it may challenge your world view.

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J. Quirk

I could not stop smiling while experiencing this book

Reviewed in the United States on December 28, 2011

How often can I say that about a book? I listened to the reading by Stefan Molyneux, a brilliant thinker in his own right who also has voice acting talents, and experienced the whole book in one sitting. It is an UTTER DELIGHT. Great artists make the mundane appear miraculous. It is truly a miraculous world we live in. I will never look at a potato chip bag the same way again. Mr Tucker, I notice no other customer has reviewed your book, but if you spot this review, know that your efforts have made a tremendous difference to me and brought me an evening of much joy. More please!

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